CD review: Damon Albarn
It seems like only yesterday that Damon Albarn was the fresh-faced boy wonder fronting Blur. For all their success as Britpop’s finest, little about their oeuvre suggested there was any great depth to Albarn or that he had any interest in being anything other than a chart act.
Since then, of course, Albarn has been engaged in one critically acclaimed sonic adventure after another, fronting The Good, the Bad and the Queen and founding the virtual band, Gorillaz. He has also penned operas and film soundtracks and is now something of an institution, one of those lovable eccentrics, like Brian Eno, who pops up where you least expect him. The surprise is not that Albarn has finally released a solo album, but that it has taken him so long.
